[Sidenote: Parts of the plough.] Men that be no husbandes maye fortune to rede this boke, that knowe not whiche is the ploughe-beame, the sharebeame, the ploughe-shethe, the ploughe-tayle, the stilte, the rest, the sheldbrede, the fenbrede, the roughe 4 staues, the ploughe-fote, the ploughe-eare or coke, the share, the culture, and ploughe-mal. Perauenture I gyue them these names here, as is vsed in my countre, and yet in other countreyes they haue other names: wherfore ye 8 [Sidenote: Plough-beam.] shall knowe, that the ploughe-beame is the longe tree [Sidenote: Share-beam.] aboue, the whiche is a lytel bente. The sharbeame is the [Sidenote: Plough-sheath.] tre vnderneth, where-vpon the share is set; the ploughe-sheth 1is a thyn pece of drye woode, made of oke, that is 12 set fast in a morteys in the plough-beame, and also in to the share-beame, the whiche is the keye and the chiefe [Sidenote: Plough-tail.] bande of all the plough. The plough-tayle is that the husbande holdeth in his hande, and the hynder ende of 16 the ploughebeame is put in a longe slyt, made in the same tayle, and not set faste, but it maye ryse vp and go dow[n]e, and is pynned behynde, and the same ploughe-tayle is set faste in a morteys, in the hynder ende of the 20 [Sidenote: [Fol. 2_b_.]] [Sidenote: Plough-stilt.] sharebeame. The plough-stylte is on the ryghte syde of [Sidenote: Rest.] the ploughe, whervpon the rest is set; the rest is a lyttell pece of woode, pynned fast vpon the nether ende of the stylt, and to the sharebeame in the ferther ende. The 24 [Sidenote: Shield-board.] sheldbrede is a brode pece of wodde, fast pinned to the ryghte side of the shethe in the ferther ende, and to the [Sidenote: Fen-board.] vtter syde of the stylte in the hynder ende. The fenbrede is a thyn borde, pynned or nayled moste commonly 28 to the lyft syde of the shethe in the ferther ende, and to the ploughe-tayle in the hynder ende. And the sayde sheldbrede wolde come ouer the sayde shethe and fenbrede an inche, and to come past the myddes of the 32 share, made with a sharpe edge, to receyue and turne the [Sidenote: Rough staves.] erthe whan the culture hath cut it. There be two roughe staues in euery ploughe in the hynder ende, set a-slope betwene the ploughe-tayle and the stilt, to holde out 36 and kepe the plough abrode in the hynder ende, and the [Sidenote: Plough-foot.] one lenger than the other. The plough-fote is a lyttell pece of wodde, with a croked ende set before in a morteys in the ploughe-beame, sette fast with wedges, to 40 dryue vppe and downe, and it is a staye to order of [Sidenote: Plough-ear.] what depenes the ploughe shall go. The ploughe-eare